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Duke/Marquis/Count or Don Name: Infante's or Infanta's son: The Most Ext Don X (Excmo. Sr. Don X) e.g., The Most Ext Don Juan Valentín Urdangarín: Don Name: Infante's or Infanta's daughter: The Most Ext Doña Y (Excma. Sra. Doña Y) e.g., The Most Ext Doña Victoria de Marichalar: Excelentísima Señora: Doña Name
In Hispanic America, this spelling convention was common among clergymen (e.g. Salvadoran Bishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez), and sanctioned by the Ley de Registro Civil (Civil Registry Law) of 1870, which required birth certificates to indicate the paternal and maternal surnames conjoined with y – thus, Felipe González y Márquez and ...
The initial content list follows that of Wikipedia:Manual of Style/France and French-related. The purpose of this supplementary manual is to create guidelines for editing articles in the English-language Wikipedia which relate to Hispanic cultures or the Spanish language to conform to a neutral encyclopedic style and to make things easy to read by following a consistent format.
The standard formal way to address a person one was not on familiar terms with was to address such a person as vuestra merced ("your grace", originally abbreviated as v.m.) in the singular and vuestras mercedes in the plural. Because of the literal meaning of these forms, they were accompanied by the corresponding third-person verb forms.
Ortografía de la lengua española (2010). Spanish orthography is the orthography used in the Spanish language.The alphabet uses the Latin script.The spelling is fairly phonemic, especially in comparison to more opaque orthographies like English, having a relatively consistent mapping of graphemes to phonemes; in other words, the pronunciation of a given Spanish-language word can largely be ...
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The Spanish conjunctions y ('and') and o ('or') alter their form in both spoken and written language to e and u respectively when followed by an identical vowel sound. Thus, padre e hijo ('father and son'), Fernando e Isabel ('Ferdinand and Isabella'), sujeto u objeto ('subject or object'), vertical u horizontal ('vertical or horizontal').